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WordPress Static Home Page
We get a lot of questions about using a static homepage with a WordPress Website. Here’s all you have to do. First make a page called Home or Welcome. Insert the content you want into your page, pictures, whatever you want. Then save it or publish it. Next create another page called Blog or News and save that also. Now go to the Settings section of your WordPress Dashboard and click on Reading.
There you will find an area labeled “Front page displays”. Select “A Static Page” and then using the drop down selections choose Home or Welcome as your Home Page and Blog or News as your Posts Page. Now your Home Page will be the static page you chose rather than the blog. Your blog will now come up as your newly saved Blog or News page. You now have a static Home page that people will land on when going to your domain and you still have the ability to post news and announcements or a blog.
You can take it even farther by creating a slide show at the top of your page which will give your new home page a more custom look. A simple way to do this is to install the NexGen Gallery plugin along with the NexGen Smooth Gallery plugin. Create a gallery of photos or graphics in the NexGen Gallery and then use the Smooth gallery to display them at the top of your home page. Here’s an example.
You can even go farther with a custom page template and even add something like the Featured Content Gallery plugin that will also give you a slide show but it’s images are linked to specific posts or a category.
WordPress is NOT just Blog Software it is a website engine with many built in features and even more add on features. It can be used for many different type of websites. We would be glad to help you with yours. Contact Us!
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